It might have been a wet and windy day but the Blogging Team loved their recent visit to our Locks Heath Free Church site, and couldn’t believe the progress made over the last month!
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Update 28.11.18
Externally the main steel frame looks absolutely stunning. The soft grey cladding panels are beginning to be fitted and work on the lower walls is well underway. In the picture above you can clearly see the blockwork, insulation and external brickwork.
Update 28.11.18
Despite the weather over recent weeks the complicated composite metal deck roof is now complete. The Blogging Team always enjoy climbing to the top of the buildings and although bracing the views over the nearby fields were great!
Update 28.11.18
Work continues on the internal superstructures of the building with the layout of the rooms now becoming recognisable. The concrete pre cast stairs to the first floor have been installed and ground work preparation for the ground floor slab pour is progressing well.
Update 19.10.18
With the 100 tonne red crane and the grey steel frame silhouetted against the blue sky, our Locks Heath Free Church build looked magnificent in the autumn sunshine.
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Update 19.10.18
As we have noted previously the Locks Heath Free Church build is extremely complicated, with a number of different construction methodologies, many different building materials and an unusual shape configuration. With the impressive steel frame now in place this is certainly becoming evident. Ben from the Blogging Team commented that it looked like the Nemesis Roller Coaster at Thorpe Park!
Update 19.10.18
The 100 tonne crane is being used to lift the heavy concrete beams into position for the beam and block flooring. With health and safety always of paramount importance on Amiri sites the inflatable Fall Arrest System was firmly in place around the delivery lorry.
Update 19.10.18 – Beam and Block Flooring Technical Focus
Beam and block is a construction method used to support flooring, especially for ground floors and multi storey buildings. It is made of cast concrete, one piece of which is a pre-stressed concrete beam which can be an inverted T-shape beam, or lintel, the other piece being a simple rectangular block. The beams are placed at regular intervals and the blocks placed between them to form a connection between each beam section. They form a support for the next layer of flooring materials.
The floors of the Activity Hall and the Sanctuary Hall of our Locks Heath Free Church build feature beam and block flooring. This is to prevent ingress of roots from the relatively close tree boundary damaging the floor, as could happen with a conventional concrete slab floor.
Update 05.09.18
These superb drone pictures taken by Jim Moss (Amiri Health and Safety Consultant) clearly show the scale and layout of our Locks Heath Free Church site.
Update 05.09.18
Impressive progress at our Locks Heath Free Church site over the summer has seen the foundations already dug and completed. Muck away works continue in preparation for the arrival of the steel frame over the coming week.
Update 04.08.18
The Blogging Teams are delighted to be working with Project Manager Adrian on what will be their third build together!The first visit on a lovely warm day in early August saw groundworks well underway with the formation of the front entrance car park to facilitate the site cabins. Helpfully these can stay in their position onsite for the duration of the build.
Work on the large car park has begun, and this will act as a giant soakaway. All surface water from the building and car park will drain through the permeable surface to the substrata below.
Reduce digging of the building area has also begun enabling the all important foundations to be cast over the coming weeks.
Locks Heath Free Church August 2018
This ambitious project for Locks Heath Free Church will see the building of an entirely new church and the remodelling of the adjacent existing church to include a new mezzanine floor over a 72 week period.
With varying construction methodologies, a multitude of different building materials and an unusual shape there is no doubt that the Locks Heath Free Church will be an exciting, challenging and dynamic build for experienced Project Manager Adrian Harvey.
Key elements include: Structural glazing, beam & block flooring, assorted facades with horizontal and vertical composite cladding, rendering, brise soleil, a main hall/sanctuary for 500 people with raised terrace seating, and extended parking facilities for their many visitors, clients and friends.
Artists Impression courtesy of Harrington Design Architects Ltd
Working with Locks Heath Free Church August 2018
Working closely alongside our clients is an integral part of the Amiri way and Locks Heath Free Church have certainly embraced our ethos. Supporting the local community and its young people is a central focus of LHFC and with help from the Amiri team they even created their own construction play scene in time for ‘Boomerang’! Boomerang is the LHFC holiday club – a week of activities for families held during the first full week of the school summer holiday.
